Name
Polier, Justine Wise, 1903-1987 (Interviewee)
Gellhorn, Kitty (Interviewer)
Title
Reminiscences of Justine Wise Polier, 1981
Abstract
Wise and Waterman family backgrounds; family relations, especially with father, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; college education at Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe and Barnard, A.B.1924; early jobs in labor and attempts to organize New Jersey textile industry; Yale Law School, LL.B.1928; referee, New York Dept. of Labor, on medical compensation cases; Assistant Corporation Counsel under Mayor LaGuardia, setting up mo del insurance system, 1934-35; judge, New York City Court of Domestic Relations: changes in court procedure, attempts to make treatment of children by voluntary agencies and courts more humane and equitable
Collection Name
Individual interviews oral history collection
Subjects
Lawyers; Women judges; Domestic relations; Children--Legal status, laws, etc; Government insurance; New York (N.Y.) Politics and government 1898-1951; Polier, Justine Wise, 1903-1987; Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1981
Physical Description
225 pages
Note (Biographical)
Lawyer, judge; interviewee married Shad Polier
Note
Interviewed by Kitty Gellhorn
Language
English
Library Location
Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record
15318876
Also In
Oral History Archives at Columbia
Time-Based Media
Time-Based Media
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-vqcv-xg78
Related URLs
Available digital content for this interview.